Improvement in curry-combs



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CURRY-COMB.

Patented J l 10, 1877.

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c UNITED STATES,

PATENT OFFICE.

4 CHARLES A. HOTCHKISS, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

IMIROVEMENT IN CURRY-COMES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 192,918, dated July 10, 1877; application filed June 28, 1877.

'To all whom it may concern:

' ing my invention,provided with a side handle.

Fig. 2 is amodification of the same. Fig. 3 represents a curry-comb containing my invention, the side handle being omitted.

The object of my invention is to cheapen the cost of supplying curry-combs with grasping devices over the back and it consists in making the grasping device out of one piece of metal, which forms two bars, running across the back, which are secured to the comb bars or frame at its front, and to the standard that forms the thumb-rest at the back, as will be more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, A represents the combbars, which are secured to the side bars B, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or to the plate 0, as shown in Fig. 3. Dis the standard, sufficiently raised above the comb-bars to form a convenient and comfortable support for the thumb. In Fig. 1 thisistandard is shown as made in one piece with the frame H, of which the side bars B form a part, forming part of the shank of the side handle I. In Fig. 2 it is represented as secured to the com bbars themselves,independently of the side bars B, forming the shank for the side handle. In Fig. 3 it is shown in the form-of a ring, the side handle being dispensed with, and is secured to the plate 0, to which the comb-bars B are attached. The grasping device ever the back of the comb is made out'of one piece of metal, to form two bars, E, as shown, socured at one end to'the standard D by rivets, or'in any other well-known manner, and at the other end to the frame H, as in Fig. 1, or to the comb-bars A, as shown in Fig. 2,

or to the plate 0, as shown in Fig. 3,, by.

raised above and extending across its back,

is provided at an expense much less than such grasping devices have heretofore been made.

This saving is of great importance in curry combs, which last but a short time, are constantly being renewed, and have, therefore, to be furnished at a very low price.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by-Letters Patent, is-- A curry-comb provided with a grasping device made out of one piece of metal, so as to formtwobars, E, extending across its back, which are connected to it and its standard D, substantially in the manner hereinbefore set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES A. HoroHKrss.

Witnesses:

M. B. PHILIPP, J. O. KLU'BER. 

